Wednesday, 4 December 2013

The Belgian invasion of Yorkshire?

Postings have been a bit thin recently as we've had a few days away in the Lake District. Mostly much-needed 'down time'.

Anyway, back to the (slightly alarmist) subject of this post. One day last week I was driving through Hull on my way to meet a client when I became aware that the other lane of the road contained a convoy of military vehicles. Nothing rare in that, but I didn't immediately recognise the trucks as being in British use. They turned out to be Unimogs (and a lone Iveco LMV)

A Belgian Army Unimog on a camping holiday. Not in Hull.

As I began to pass the convoy I noticed that the number plates sported small Belgian flags. There were about 30 vehicles in all.

An alternative to my invasion theory is that they had been on an exercise at a Ministry of Defence establishment - probably the Driver training school at Leconfield in East Yorkshire.

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I built my first plastic kit in about 1971 (an inevitable Airfix Spitfire IX), and can date my wargaming 'career' back to 1977 (aged 11) when in the company of my friends John and Lee I played a simple game with the Airfix (20mm) tanks we had accumulated. Soon a chance find of a couple of Don Featherstone books in the local library revealed that 'grown-ups' did this sort of thing too! I joined Wargame Developments in 1985 and have attended their annual Conference of Wargamers (COW) since 1990. I have also, together with Bob Cordery, been organising it for the past few years. My main interest has always been WW2, with a side order of various postwar conflicts. I also dabble in earlier periods. I am particularly interested in 'operational' level games.